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reed

English

  1. 🔊 a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
    “the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece”
  2. 🔊 United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
  3. 🔊 United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917
  4. 🔊 tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
  5. 🔊 a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

Spanish

  1. 🔊 carrizo reed
  2. 🔊 caƱabrava reed
  3. 🔊 lata reed
  4. 🔊 junco reed, rush
  5. 🔊 junquera reed, rush

Similar words

beating-reed instrument reed instrument vibrating reed walter reed john reed english horn pandean pipe adjutage aerophone aftergrass anthrophore arrow arrowhead aulos axis bamboo barb basset horn basset oboe bassoon bell bobtailed arrow bole bolt